Garden Tour

The importance of conserving the world's rarest plants will be one of
the subjects covered in a lecture given by curator of the University of
Dundee's Botanic Garden, Alisdair Hood, tomorrow, November 15.

Alisdair will take his audience on a virtual tour of the Dundee Botanic
Garden, discussing its purpose and function as well as looking at the
highlights of other gardens around the world.

The University's garden contains more than 120 plant species which are
on the endangered list. This includes a collection of sorbus (mountain
ash) which are native to the UK and nine Monkey Puzzle trees - there are more
of this species growing in cultivation than there are left in their native
environment of Chile. The garden recently won the Provost's Trophy at
the Dundee Food & Flower Festival.

The lecture is part of the popular Armitstead lecture series, which has
been informing and entertaining local people for the last 120 years.
Dundonian flax merchant and MP George Armitstead began a trust to fund
the lectures in 1882.